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  • COMMON NAME: rattlepods
  • ARABIC: عظلم ، نزاع
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Crotalaria aegyptiaca Benth
  • SYNONYMS: Crotalaria wissmannii O.Schwartz
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Umm-Al-Quwain , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:487765-1 Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Ahmed Khider Bashir Asima Bibi: The landscaping plants of Abu Dhabi Emirate, book, Barari Natural resources 2022
Moderately salt tolerant, grazable particularly by camels, used in folk medicine.

Shruby plant, up to 70 cm high, branches rigid, erect, gray, glabrous or appressed-hairy, at length spinescent. Leaves caducous, small, ovate, canescent. Flower about 10 mm long, calyx lobes, free, rarely somewhat bilabiate, 3-5 mm long. standard yellowish-red striped. pod ovoid, twice or more as long as calyx. 

Flowering from February to April.
Sandy and gravelly soil.
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